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People Round Up, Mid February, 2024

Publishing Trends

DULY NOTED Amelia Possanza and Brittani Hilles have launched Lavender Public Relations , a literary public relations agency that is “aimed at uplifting and building long-term careers for queer and feminist voices across genres”.

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Writing Poetry In The Dark With Stephanie Wytovich

The Creative Penn

I was reading Latin American poetry, and I was reading a lot of, you know, black voices and queer voices. If I'm at a point in my story and I don't really know where to go with it, I'll start writing poetry based on the short story that I'm writing, or I'll start writing in my character's voice.

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What Is LGBTQ+ Fiction—And Does a Writer Have to Be Queer to Write It?

Jane Friedman

Despite the recent wave of LGBTQ+ book bans, sales of queer fiction titles are booming. Defining queer fiction isn’t easy. Does an LGBTQ+ story need to have a queer protagonist? Is a book considered LGBTQ+ if it has just one queer character? Does a writer have to be queer to write an LGBTQ+ story?

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Beyond Inclusive Writing: 3 Lesser-Known Principles of Inclusive Content

Animalz

The broader concept of family accounts for same-gender couples, queer relationships, single parents, divorce, death of a parent, step-parents, adoption, surrogacy, fostering, and co-parenting. A variety of voices in subject matter experts (SMEs) or featured brands (e.g. Using diverse stock photos communicates that visually.

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Writing Choctaw Characters And Diversity In Fiction With Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer

The Creative Penn

So I wrote over 60 of those, all different genres , really just exploring my voice and my style as a writer. For example, I don't write specifically LGBTQ queer fiction, but I have characters where a woman loves a woman, for example, or I have characters who are different to my own situation. Joanna: That's great. It's fantastic.

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Diversity and Inclusion in SEO: BIPOC and LGBTQ+ SEOs Share Their Experiences

Moz

These are important voices that need to be heard, but as we analyzed the data, we were careful not to generalize the industry as a whole without accounting for potential sampling bias. Another Black SEO, a 29-year-old woman at a Chicago agency, commented, “As a Black woman (and queer at that), I have definitely not seen a woman like me.

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